Sentence examples similar to avenue blocking from inspiring English sources

With that avenue blocked, Mr. McCain was trying to fashion a plan to make clear that Russian objections would not stop American missile defense in Europe.

A glossy, high end, probably Miami based police procedural stuffed to the gills with coke busts, bank heists, rainy neon, luridly long strip club scenes, facial hair straight out of a dodgy porno, thick plumes of Cuban cigar smoke, endless avenues blocked with health-and-safety-bothering cardboard boxes and a hard drinking superintendent with a heart of gold.

In his fleeting months outside, he cannot walk a long avenue block.

Neighbors said Mr. Hall, 40, was the president of the Stevens Avenue Block Association and lived with his 10-year-old son.

Mr. Bolay listed each building's walking time to work, assuming one minute per street block and three minutes per avenue block, and calculated the value of his travel time according to his salary.

"Amy Watkins happened up here, and since then every little thing that happens, you get a sense of weirdness," said Tammy Pittman, the corresponding secretary for the Park Place/Underhill Avenue Block Association.

A fatal 1902 crash, in which the morning local from White Plains had slammed into the rear car of a Danbury, Conn., train stopped on the tracks of the Park Avenue Tunnel, killing 15 passengers instantaneously, had convinced Wilgus that it was no longer possible to run a chaotic railroad yard two avenue blocks wide in what was becoming the very heart of the nation's largest city.

But where it is perhaps set apart most from the others is in its focus on a look that speaks to a kind of high-fashion street style that is many avenue blocks away from the Gap, and a much closer to neighbor to UK fixtures ASOS and Top Shop.

Two avenue blocks west from my front door was the Coroner's office, where remains were being identified.

At peak hours, there can be 150 people walking on a given avenue block trying to get to work.

Sure, I could fit in outside of Nathan's on the Boardwalk, or at the New York Aquarium, but this was Mermaid Avenue, blocks from the relative safety of the beach or Brighton 5th.